Punctureproof resilient tire



s. BARDAXOGLOU PUNCTUREPROOF RESILIENT TIRE Filed Dec. 14. 1929 INVENTOR. IZZCZIYZEI irz'laxu [044 By J c/ ATTORNEY}.

Jan.6, 1931.

I These and other objects and advantages of I claim as new, and'desire to secure by Letters Patented Jan. 6, 1931 v i s 1 ,788,042

UNITED: STATES PATENT OFFICE Applicationfiled December 14, 1929. Serial I To. 4l4,098.

' This invention relates to improvements'in about which a layer 16 of hair or the like tires for automobiles and similar vehicles, material is wound, and ring and hair layer and it is the principal object of my invention are'embedded in a rubber body .17.

to provide a puncture proof resilient tire It will be clear thatja tire constructed ac- 5 which does entirely away with the inner pneu- I cording to my invention'will be able to carry matic air tube liable to be punctured and to the heaviest loads without danger of colcause flat tires troublesome to repair and causlapsing and that it cannot be punctured on ing annoyance and delay to the automobilists. account of the steel'ring protector, while it My invention does away with these disadwill have all of the resiliency now obtained 10 vantages by producing asimple and comparafrom pneumatic tires and will obviate all tively inexpensive tire which cannot be puncexpense caused by punctures and blow-outs,

,ture d, yet possesses a resiliency equal to if not while it may be readily'applied'to the wheels superior to the pneumatic tires now commonly of any automobilenow in use. used. It will be understood that I haveshown Another object of my invention is the proand described the preferred form of my vision of a tire protected against punctures by puncture proof, resilient tire as one example metal rings, which are in turn protected by only of the many possible ways to practically layers or hands of hair wool or similar sub-,- construct the same, and that I may make such stances embedded in rubber and kept in place changes in the construction of the minor de- 30 by a wooden supporting ring, allowing acerv tails andin the general arrangement of my tain limited movement of the bodies to pretire as come within the scope of the appended serve and impart resiliency to the tire so that claims without departure from the spirit 0t it may safely be employed with'any loads my invention andthe principles involved. 7 and all sizes and types of vehicles. 7 Having thus described my invention, what 'my invention will become more fully known Patent is:

as the description thereof proceeds, and will 1. In a device of the characterdescribed, then be specifically defined in theappended a filler consisting of steel rings, bandsof hair claims. 7 or wool wound about said rings, and bands 30 In the accompanying drawing forming a of rubber covering said steel rings and their 50 I material part of this disclosure; hair covering.

Fig. 1 is a transverse sectional view of a tire 2. A filler for vehicle wheel tires comprisshoe constructed in accordance with my ining a plurality of'substantially wedge shaped vent-ion. bodies substantially circular in cross-section Fig. 2 18 a fragmentary longitudinal secadapted to be inserted into the tire, each 0 t1onal view of the same. said bodies composed of a metal rlng to form Fig. 3 is a detail end elevation of a filler the core of said body, alaye r of hair wound for the tire, partly'broken away to show the about said core, and a rubber body in which 1 interior construction. f ring and hair layer are embedded.

As illustrated, the outer shoe 10 of'a tire Signed'at New York, in the county of New constructed from any suitable material pref- Yorkand State of'New York this 12th day erably rubber has formed therewith the usual of DecembenIA. D. 1929. i beads 11 and 12 whereby the tire or shoe may a STANLEY BARDAXOGLOU. be clamped to the rim of a. wheel formed f v a j 45 with a wooden supporting ring 13. v

'The space between shoe and supporting ring is filled by a plurality of substantially wedge shaped bodies 14 substantially circular in cross-section, and eachcomposed of a 50 ,metal or steel ring 15, forming the core, 

